10 reasons Why the Wall Wont Work

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Donald Trump captured the imagination of many American voters with a single campaign promise. “I will build a great, great wall on our southern border,” he boasted in June 2015. For good measure, he added, “And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.” The twin pledges-which followed a tirade about Mexican rapists and drug dealers-neatly captured everything that was either attractive or repulsive to voters in the real estate mogul’s presidential run: bravado, nationalism, and controversy

1. Why is the wall working in El Paso?

This town is proof that Trump’s wall can work
By Paul Sperry January 13, 2018 | 9:15am

When charges of “racism” and “xenophobia” fail, Democrats’ fallback argument against President Trump’s proposed border wall is that it simply “won’t work,” so why waste billions building it? Tell that to the residents of El Paso, Texas.

Federal data show a far-less imposing wall than the one Trump envisions — a two-story corrugated metal fence first erected under the Bush administration — already has dramatically curtailed both illegal border crossings and crime in Texas’ sixth-largest city, which borders the high-crime Mexican city of Juarez.

In fact, the number of deportable illegal immigrants located by the US Border Patrol plummeted by more than 89 percent over the five-year period during which the controversial new fence was built, according to Homeland Security data I reviewed. When the project first started in 2006, illegal crossings totaled 122,261, but by 2010, when the 131-mile fence was completed from one end of El Paso out into the New Mexico desert, immigrant crossings shrank to just 12,251.

They hit a low of 9,678 in 2012, before slowly ticking back up to a total of 25,193 last year. But they’re still well below pre-fence levels, and the Border Patrol credits the fortified barrier dividing El Paso from Mexico for the reduction in illegal flows.

11. ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION crime is imported crime

But by all means, let them give your family the Golvach/Singh/Steinlie treatment. I mean, if you are willing to personally feed and house them, you should be willing to let your family experience the results of your support.

I wish no ill on you or your family. I merely suggest that you be the recipient of the results of your proposed policy. If that is a bad outcome, it is on you not me.

30. People who buy into his bullshit are dumber than he is.

8. You can't shoot through a solid wall

So long as the cartels effectively run northern Mexico, and are well armed thanks to Fast and Furious I might add, it is only prudent and intelligent to erect a solid small arms impenetrable wall to separate and wall off the uncivilized areas south of our border.

25. "right wing Cato Institute". Nope. Libertarian, ya dingus.

27. Would you call them left wing?

Maybe "right wing" isn't the best word, but I would certainly call them conservative, if a particular kind of conservative. And yes, we need to note that they are the "libertarian" type of "conservative." I think that's better than calling them liberal, progressive, or centrist.

35. The left has a difficult time

categorizing libertarians. They know they hate it, like a lot a lot a lot, even more than actual conservatism. But they are afraid to admit that libertarianism is far closer to the actual definition of liberal than what any group on the left practices so they pretend that libertarians are the heart and soul of some right wing cabal to make themselves feel better.

45. So are you now saying that people you don't like in Congress supported a barrier?

But that it wasn't effective enough? I still don't agree with you that we need massive additions to the walls and fencing we already have (although I am certainly open to measures that might actually work better), but that would at least be a plausible and coherent position.

Problem is, you just said something different, that these congresspeople you don't like are hypocrites for supporting something that Trump is now calling for. So which is it?

50. The reason your front doors with their locks work, is because they're connected to a...wall.

33. YOur reading comprehension is abysmal.

They were talking 20 months ago and only a partial "wall" If Trump puts up steel slt barriers that go 8' down and 20-25' high it will almost completely stop illegal crossings where they are built. Only the most committed to break our laws would take the time and effort to scale a 25' high barrier.

If we had 8-900 miles of steel slat/concrete barriers- that funnels opening to cross to a much more manageable area. Many of those areas are very hostile and yes people will take enormous risks to cross there. But oif they are that determined to enter the US-- let them do so legally!

Also with increased technology on the border (drones, cameras, infra red, motion detectors etc) located in the unbarriered area- it will cut down illegal crossings to single digit%

As for Tweedle dumb and tweedledumber saying more drugs pass through legal entry points-- I hope you are not one of those with a shoe size IQ who believe that.

Why would the drug cartels risk trying to sneak drugs across at a point of entry with loads of agents and drug sniffing dogs. when there is hundreds of miles of open border they can send their mules through???? Th etunnels alone are proof of Pelosi and schumer lying through their false teeth.

Sorry- we spent 1.2 billion in Syria for them to build a wall, Israel built a wall and homicide bombers went down to near zero! CPB agents and officials all say walls work and are needed, nations that have walls show the facts that walls work, even these lying leftists all are on record calling for more secure borders. I will take thoe experts word for it not some person writing in D.C. even if they are a conservative and from an Institute I respect greatly!